Now, it does open up a bit, right? You can expand it. That’s not going to be an option, right? They had to cut it off there.Īnd with that lack of opening all the way, it gets a little bit tight in here, and this is one of our concerns with this pack is just kind of the tightness. They couldn’t put the zipper further down into the water bottle holder. That lack of consistency doesn’t really annoy me because I’d rather have the additional opening on this side because I get what they had to do.
Now, one thing to know about the main compartment is the opening is not consistent, right? You can’t get down as far on the water bottle side as you can on the opposite side. Aer put that little bit of extra love into their handles, and it’s just got a really nice feel to it.Īnd for the moment you’ve all been waiting for, let’s get into the main compartment. It’s really comfortable, almost like a jelly sort of a feel to it. There’s a nice amount of padding in there. It’s a basic nylon webbing, basically a seat belt, but I like the padding. It’s like a micro fleece or something, so it means that anything that’s fragile, any bits of gear that you don’t want to get scratched, this is where you put them.
It’s really soft, really padded, and it’s a nice material. Now, I love what Aer has done with the materials of these compartments of their new packs. Now, this is one thing to keep in mind with Aer is with all this Aer dingleberry, jingleberry going on right here, it gets a little confusing, right? There’s a lot of zipperage going on, but if you move the zipperage, you can see right here, we have a top compartment.